Definition of Moronism

1. the condition of being a moron [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Moronism

morningtide
morns
mornward
mornynge
mornynges
moro
moroccos
morocoy
morolimumab
morology
moron
morone
moronic
moronic acid
moronically
moronism (current term)
moronisms
moronities
moronity
morons
morosaurus
morose
morosely
moroseness
morosenesses
moroser
morosest
morosis
morosities
morosity

Literary usage of Moronism

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Race Decadence: An Examination of the Causes of Racial Degeneracy in the by William Samuel Sadler (1922)
"Mental defectiveness (moronism) is hereditary and constitutional, ... DEFINITION OF moronism When we come to study the moron it will be necessary to define ..."

2. Our American Humorists by Thomas Lansing Masson (1922)
"It is a protest against the larva state of our civilization, against the emotional moronism that appraises tears above laughter, and the dull ore of ..."

3. The Unsound Mind and the Law: A Presentation of Forensic Psychiatry by George W. Jacoby (1918)
"Idiocy, imbecility and moronism constitute one end of the chain while at the other we find but a relative intellectual deficiency which causes no social ..."

4. Public School Methods (1916)
"... to fall within the category of moronism or feeble-mindedness. Every one has known cases of careless and shiftless girls of fifteen or sixteen placed in ..."

5. Essays and studies in honor of Margaret Barclay Wilson, teacher, physician by Margaret Barclay Wilson (1922)
"Every race is such a plexus of crossing lines of descent, that given absence from moronism, and one family is as likely to produce a superior person as ..."

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